Saturday, May 29, 2010

MESSAGER EUROPEEN

The No. 1 of LE MESSAGER EUROPEEN opens with an annotated text of the Spiegel "interview" with Heidegger.

Today the same text would require facing pages which could be alternated: from these facing pages by Jan Patočka to facing pages exerpted from Hugo Ott or Tom Rockmore.

For examples see http://phil.aule-brwser.com/

Since its publication in 1987, so very much has changed in post-1989 Europe - but also in the assessment of post-WW-I German philosophers and the European intelligensia. In 1987 Heidegger had been gone for a decade and the crushing of the Prague Spring was two decades past.

In his responses (Heidegger left page, Patočka, right page or blank) Patočka invokes both Masaryk and the Husserl of Prague and after.

In the P.O.L. volume the facing pages of interview-response are followed by an essay by Elisabeth de Fontenay.

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